[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Syncing with iCal

[Ken Freeman]

Thanks for explaining how you are using the status field. On a feature 
like this where there is not an obvious choice on how the feature 
should work it is great to hear how people are using the feature (in 
this case the status field).

I can't comment on any unreleased products, but again, thanks for 
helping us understand your situation.

Ken

On Mar 2, 2004, at 10:36 PM, franco wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
>>
>> The issue here is that iCal's usage of the "status" field is different
>> than the PPC usage, so the status field choices on each side don't map
>> well to the other. iCal uses the status to relate that particular 
>> event
>> (e.g. cancelled, confirmed, tentative) and the PPC use the status to
>> track the availability of the person or calendar as a whole (e.g. 
>> Busy,
>> Free, Out of the office). We've discussed matching the fields as best
>> as we can, but other than the field "tentative" there aren't very good
>> choices that would make sense to most users.
>>
>> So the Missing Sync for Pocket PC transfers all appointments from iCal
>> to the PPC as busy. New items created on the PPC sync as "none" in
>> iCal. However, one good thing to note is that if you set the status on
>> the PPC and sync, we don't change the status on the handheld.
>
> I understand that you may be writing a conduit to work with Entourage 
> as
> well. Do you think this will be an issue with Entourage? Again, the 
> other
> product does not sync these fields because, apparently, they do not 
> have
> access to them (I am led to believe that MS does not give access to 
> this
> field from the API).
>
> Will this be the case for your software?
>
> to let yourself, and everybody else on this list know, I am a 
> frustrated
> PocketMac 3.0 user. I only purchased their software because of the
> Entourage conduit. I've had lots of problems with it. I wish I had 
> purchased
> MissingSync, but this is the decisions in life. Only one thing swayed 
> me to
> PM.
>
> To give a further example of why the status matching is important. I 
> keep
> info such as my wife's appointments in my diary. They are always set to
> "free" (as well as "need to be aware" of events). PM transfers 
> everything to
> the mac as "busy". If I use Office Reminders I get alarms..... If I 
> have to
> go & reset the fields as soon as I've transferred the appt, I may as 
> well
> just put it in manually & not be bothered with sync software. Vice 
> versa to
> the PPC. All "free" appts become "busy" on the PPC.
>
> Just a whole dilemma to me. Perhaps I should buy a soon to 
> not-also-sync
> Palm :-)
>
> Thanks for your info anyhow!
>
> - franco.
>
>
>
>
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